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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Arthur Miller

A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that’s what it’s for!
ARTHUR MILLER

Kill People Suicide
Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
ARTHUR MILLER

Love Perfume Remember Rose Smell Yourself
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
ARTHUR MILLER

Goodness Judgement Yourself
He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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Attention Character Himself Live Paid
I think it’s a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one’s self.
ARTHUR MILLER

Hope Mistake Oneself Thinking
Don’t be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
ARTHUR MILLER

Money Profit Seduction Value
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.
ARTHUR MILLER

Catch Children Love Return Run
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.
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Himself Shape Tools
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
ARTHUR MILLER

Absence Face Humility Question
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
ARTHUR MILLER

Audience Emotion Observation Play Present Try Writing Yourself
I love her too, but our neuroses just don’t match.
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Herself Love Match Myself
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.
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Greatness Myself Possible Theatre Thinking
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
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Alien Politics
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
ARTHUR MILLER

Action Beginning Choice Innocent
If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.
ARTHUR MILLER

Justice Live Simplicity Value
All we are is a lot of talking nitrogen.
ARTHUR MILLER

Existence Science Talk

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